Throw out the Constitution? Poppycock!

9:04 PM,
Feb. 17, 2013

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I suppose frustration with Congress and the president has reached a fever pitch when a college professor decides the real problem with the United States is our Constitution. No, we can't blame ourselves for the troubles we deal with today. It's the Constitution's fault.

In a recent New York Times editorial that has set off quite a furor of discussion, Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, has put forward the idea that we need to give up on our Constitution.

What does that mean? Do we throw the baby out with the bathwater and go without any basic ...